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Professor Christopher K.R.T. Jones — Recipient of the 2020 MPE Prize


Professor Chris Jones is the Bill Guthridge Distinguished Professor in Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN). The 2020 MPE Prize recognizes Professor Jones for his many significant contributions to climate science and the mathematics of planet Earth.

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Program on Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Climate and the Earth System

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Organized by Amy Braverman, Peter Challenor, Doug Nychka, Michael Wehner, Mary Lou Zeeman

https://www.samsi.info/programs-and-activities/year-long-research-programs/2017-18-program-on-mathematical-and-statistical-methods-for-climate-and-the-earth-system-clim/

08/01/17 - 05/31/18

SAMSI, SAMSI, North Carolina, USA

From the point of view of societal impacts, climate change remains one of the most pressing issues of our time. The fifth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) included stronger statements than ever before about the likelihood of human influence as the dominant driver of climate change, on the increasing frequencies and intensities of extreme events, the likely rise in sea level over the next century, and the human health impacts of climate change. More speculative, but still important, scenarios include the possibility of abrupt climate change through various mechanisms such as disruption to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the destabilization of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and late summer Arctic ice disappearance (these topics form the core of the recent National Research Council report on Abrupt Climate Change). However, while the basic scientific facts of climate change are very widely accepted, many issues of quantifying expected effects, and even more so, theuncertainties associated with those effects, remain unsettled in many cases. Moreover, there has been increasing involvement of mathematicians and statisticians, working in conjunction with climate scientists, to resolve many of these more quantitative issues.

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